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Job Summary

We are seeking a DLT architect to Shape and deliver the Bank's global digital assets and DLT platform supporting tokenised deposits, digital asset custody, tokenised funds, stablecoins and digital-asset payments. Own end-to-end solution architecture across banking applications, blockchain networks, shared platform services and external providers, translating business requirements into secure, scalable, highly available and supportable solutions across public cloud, private cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Working with the Head of DLT, product, engineering, DevOps, SRE, Production Support, enterprise architecture, cyber-security and penetration-testing teams, guide solutions from discovery through production. Operate independently, make evidence-based technology decisions, and build architecture capability within India while setting the technical direction that enables each specialist team to deliver consistently.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Ownership and Platform Strategy

- Own architecture across digital-asset initiatives, aligning business outcomes, CIB strategy, enterprise standards and the platform roadmap.

- Design reusable primitives for wallets, tokenisation, transaction orchestration, blockchain connectivity, compliance, counterparty management, identity and interoperability.

- Define service boundaries, application ownership, data responsibilities, integration contracts and dependencies across Bank-managed platforms and SaaS providers.

- Produce implementable solution designs,



deployment views, sequence and transaction flows, threat models, data flows, NFRs and architecture decision records.

- Evaluate technologies through prototypes and evidence-based assessments of security, scalability, privacy, resilience, supportability, portability, cost and exit risk.
- Guide implementation, review critical designs and code/configuration, and verify that delivered solutions conform to approved architecture.

Digital Assets, Blockchain and Settlement

Architect issuance, minting, burning, transfer, redemption and reconciliation for tokenised deposits, funds, stablecoins and other digital assets.
Design institutional custody and wallet orchestration covering policy, approval, signing, submission, confirmation, recovery and reconciliation.
Define permissioned-network architecture across countries and regions, addressing governance, validator topology, privacy, consensus, finality and resilience.
Design integration with EVM and non-EVM networks, including nodes, RPC, event indexing, transaction lifecycle, confirmation and exception handling.
Architect cross-chain interoperability and integration with traditional payment and settlement systems, including delivery-versus-payment and payment-versus-payment.
Establish smart-contract architecture and lifecycle controls for permissions,



upgradeability, testing, independent assurance, deployment and rollback.

Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Architecture

Design deployment patterns across AWS/Azure public cloud, enterprise private cloud and on-premises environments.
Define multi-region architectures for availability, disaster recovery, data residency and country-specific constraints.
Specify Kubernetes, networking, DNS, certificates, storage, database, cache and Kafka/Solace messaging patterns appropriate to workload and control needs.
Design secure connectivity between Bank networks, clouds, blockchain platforms, custody services and SaaS providers.
Guide DevOps on Terraform modules, setting isolation, protected remote state, locking, policy-as-code, drift control and reliable reconstruction.
Ensure capacity, performance, operability, recoverability and cost are addressed in infrastructure design.

Security, Transaction Integrity and Penetration-Test Readiness
• Design end-to-end integrity through payload signing, identity binding, signature validation, replay protection, idempotency and auditable transaction processing.
• Define hot, warm and cold wallet architectures, HSM integration, key ceremonies, key lifecycle, backup and controlled recovery.
• Apply zero-trust principles, authentication, authorisation, workload identity, secrets management, least privilege and segregation of duties across hybrid environments.
• Protect key material and credentials across applications, infrastructure automation, pipelines, logs and operational tooling.
• Partner with cyber-security and penetration-testing teams t

📌 Technical Architect DLT (Bengaluru)
🏢 Standard Chartered Bank
📍 Bengaluru